Carrying heavy school bags or carrying the bag always on the same shoulder does not cause scoliosis. However, children are generally recommended not to carry loads exceeding 5% of their body weight in order to avoid lumbar degeneration and pain.

These two methods quantify different aspects of scoliosis. Sideway bending magnitude is measured on radiographs, while scoliometer quantifies the rotation.

Hard mattresses do not decrease, and may potentially increase lower back pain. A person sleeping on a hard matress will sustain greater pressures on protuberant areas of the body in contact with the bed (hip, shoulder, etc.), and as a result, will turn often. These turning movements will increase lower back pain. On the other hand, beds that are too soft will cause the body to bend excessively, eventually increasing the pressure due to abnormal forcing, and result in increased pain. Yet, there is no consensus on the best mattress for the spine. Several studies that compared different mattresses concluded that there were no differences between the water beds, semi-firm mattresses and visco-elastic bed.

Manual and computerized measurements have 5 and 3 degrees of acceptable measurement error, respectively.

Lack of calcium does not cause scoliosis.